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by noisy_boy 521 days ago
Now there is even lesser excuse for not knowing what it does, because the same chatGPT that gave you the code, can explain it too. That wasn't a luxury available in copy/paste-from-StackOverflow days (though explanations with varying degrees of depth were available there too).
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Yes, and I think the mistakes that LLMs commonly make are less problematic than Stack Overflow. LLMs seem to most often either hallucinate APIs, or use outdated ones. They're easier to detect when they just don't work. They're not perfect, but seem less inclined to generate the bad practices and security holes that are the bread and butter of Stack Overflow. In fact they're pretty good at identifying those sort of problems in existing code.